Intel cuts desktop processor prices

Author: Tim Smalley
Published: 22nd July 2008
Comments (27) Stumble
The price for Intel's Core 2 Quad Q6600 has been reduced below $200 USD for the first time.

The price for Intel's Core 2 Quad Q6600 has been reduced below $200 USD for the first time.

In a move that'll surely make AMD weep, Intel has cut the prices on four of its desktop processors.

Probably the biggest news is the ever-popular Core 2 Quad Q6600's first appearance below $200. Intel reduced the price of its 2.4GHz quad-core part by 16 percent in April, bringing it down to $224 in 1,000 unit quantities – now it's available for just $193.

Other price cuts include the 3.16GHz Core 2 Duo E8500, which has had a 31 percent reduction in price from $266 to $183, while the 3.0GHz Core 2 Duo E8400 has been discounted by 11 percent to $163.

Finally, the Core 2 Duo E7200 has had its price cut from $133 to $113, which represents a 15 percent price drop. This chip is a relatively new addition to Intel's lineup and comes clocked at 2.53GHz on a 1,066MHz front side bus and packs 3MB of shared L2 cache.

We can expect these price drops to roll out at online retailers over the next couple of days if they haven't already come into effect.

Do any of the price drops give you that itching feeling? Tell us in the forums.
Quote Gunsmith 22nd July 2008, 15:20
more slashes then a londoner

im impressed.
Quote spazmochad 22nd July 2008, 15:23
Other killer slashes making news.
Quote bowman 22nd July 2008, 15:24
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Do any of the price drops give you that itching feeling?

Only the itching Nehalem feeling. :)))
Quote wuyanxu 22nd July 2008, 15:26
wow, looks like Intel is determined to send this message:
-dual cores are useless, look, they drop like crazy
-quad cores are affordable, buy my affordable quad core.
Quote kenco_uk 22nd July 2008, 15:27
I'm waiting for a drop in price on the Q9xxx series although I can't see it happening until there's a change in cpu socket :(
Quote Elz 22nd July 2008, 15:29
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Originally Posted by bowman
Only the itching Nehalem feeling. :)))

Quite! Dammit there I was thinking of an upgrade, then I thought I'll wait til Nehalem, and now they tempt me again with price slashery. Quit toying with me, Intel!
Quote devdevil85 22nd July 2008, 15:32
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Originally Posted by spazmochad
Other killer slashes making news.
OMG LOL what an idiot!
Quote Redbeaver 22nd July 2008, 17:05
i got a Q6600 on a P35... ive been holding out a LONG TIME for an upgrade... P45...780s...Q9x CPUs...

...its worth the wait so far, but with Nehalem around the corner.......... hmmm.....
Quote BlackMage23 22nd July 2008, 17:13
I may have to get a Q6600 now
Quote Tim S 22nd July 2008, 17:29
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Originally Posted by spazmochad
Other killer slashes making news.

Ouch.
Quote DarkLord7854 22nd July 2008, 17:42
Time to build a quadcore media center... yey
Quote ComputerKing 22nd July 2008, 18:24
OH yeah, Can't wait to see the Quads for 100$ :D I mean Q9450 :P
Quote Ninja_182 22nd July 2008, 19:45
Haha just as AMD were showing signs of recovery.
Quote Ghys 22nd July 2008, 20:21
they were ? I didn't notice

During my salesman day at best buy i think i've never sold a single freaking Phenom based PC. Nobody wants them because they were told by some idiots that AMD's are bad CPU. I then have to tell them that whatever they heard is bullshit and that the only thing in which they would notice a difference is if they play games. Of course it's more complicated than that and Phenoms are obviously slower than C2D's in virtually everything, but it's not as if their noob minds would ever realize it while playing freaking solitaire on a sunday afternoon

stupid noobs
Quote MrMonroe 22nd July 2008, 21:14
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Originally Posted by spazmochad
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I find this actually kinda confusing. It must have killed him almost instantly, or the muscle contractions from the shock would have stopped him peeing and therefore broken the contact.
Quote DarkLord7854 22nd July 2008, 21:50
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Originally Posted by Ghys
they were ? I didn't notice

During my salesman day at best buy i think i've never sold a single freaking Phenom based PC. Nobody wants them because they were told by some idiots that AMD's are bad CPU. I then have to tell them that whatever they heard is bullshit and that the only thing in which they would notice a difference is if they play games. Of course it's more complicated than that and Phenoms are obviously slower than C2D's in virtually everything, but it's not as if their noob minds would ever realize it while playing freaking solitaire on a sunday afternoon

stupid noobs

Did you not know? AMD is a third-world based company who make inferior, "knock-off" copies of American processor chips. They use child labor extensively in their third world sweatshops, and they deliberately disable the security features that American processor makers, such as Intel, use to safeguard you from spyware and hackers. Pft. :)
Quote Timmy_the_tortoise 22nd July 2008, 21:52
Just in time for my quad core build next week.. AWESOME.
Quote The_Beast 22nd July 2008, 22:05
sweet prices


I may have to pick myself up a quad-core
Quote jezmck 22nd July 2008, 22:57
Any chance of these price drops reaching our shores?
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Originally Posted by MrMonroe
I find this actually kinda confusing. It must have killed him almost instantly, or the muscle contractions from the shock would have stopped him peeing and therefore broken the contact.

Electricity does move rather fast.
Quote Tim S 22nd July 2008, 23:31
jezmck: they should do over the next few days... Intel's prices are all in dollars though, so it makes it hard to guestimate what they'll cost in GBP, especially when they're wholesale prices.

I'm hearing that the Q6600 has dropped to $199 on Newegg though, so I'd expect to see them drop below £110 inc VAT here.
Quote GavX 22nd July 2008, 23:52
glad to see the Q9450 hasn't dropped, I dont want to feel like I wasted so much money just yet... :D Odd they didn't reduce the E8200, or has that been discontinued already?
Regarding peeing on the tracks: we do that in this country? Didn't know that, though they were petrol/deisol/kerosine here, but yes electricity is a bit nippy and I can imagine that so much current passing through ones giblets is not going to end well, poor sod
Quote salesman 23rd July 2008, 02:38
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Originally Posted by DarkLord7854
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Originally Posted by Ghys
they were ? I didn't notice

During my salesman day at best buy i think i've never sold a single freaking Phenom based PC. Nobody wants them because they were told by some idiots that AMD's are bad CPU. I then have to tell them that whatever they heard is bullshit and that the only thing in which they would notice a difference is if they play games. Of course it's more complicated than that and Phenoms are obviously slower than C2D's in virtually everything, but it's not as if their noob minds would ever realize it while playing freaking solitaire on a sunday afternoon

stupid noobs

Did you not know? AMD is a third-world based company who make inferior, "knock-off" copies of American processor chips. They use child labor extensively in their third world sweatshops, and they deliberately disable the security features that American processor makers, such as Intel, use to safeguard you from spyware and hackers. Pft. :)


Sweatshops, classic.

And the peeing just goes to show you that weird things occur and if it weren't for the tech websites i read i would never know about it.
Quote p3ri0d 23rd July 2008, 02:54
Well, the e8400 dropped from 190$ to 180$ on newegg, should go down more but it's a start :)
Quote Ghys 23rd July 2008, 03:02
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Originally Posted by DarkLord7854
Did you not know? AMD is a third-world based company who make inferior, "knock-off" copies of American processor chips. They use child labor extensively in their third world sweatshops, and they deliberately disable the security features that American processor makers, such as Intel, use to safeguard you from spyware and hackers. Pft. :)

Believe it or not, I heard another salesman say that to a client... That's why I hated this job, it was all about who could spit the biggest BS to the nubest clients
Quote Amon 23rd July 2008, 04:18
Someone needs to do something about how unfair this is to AMD. 5-10% would be sensible. But this is far too steep and, quite frankly, possibly anticompetitive. I really wouldn't like to shop such an Intel-saturated industry in the future, with only IBM's PowerPC chips being the last stand.
Quote Goty 23rd July 2008, 06:14
It's only anti-competitive if Intel is selling chips at a loss solely to try and drive AMD out of the market.
Quote Xir 23rd July 2008, 12:34
*cough*

http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=154803

*cough*

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